It can be hard to believe it in hindsight. But before the 1940s, the relationship between Germany and the United States wasn't all that different from any other influential European country. That's ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Laid down in 1936, the ship would never see service. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine into a world-class ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This was an inglorious fate for a ship launched with fanfare in 1938 and hailed as the pride of the Nazi regime's navy, the ...

The Graf Zeppelin came closer than any other German project to becoming an operational aircraft carrier, but it never entered ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Berlin may have dreamed of being a naval airpower, but it never happened. From the first days of his ascension to power, Adolf Hitler planned to rebuild the Kriegsmarine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, the Goodyear Blimp was spotted over El Paso, with many sharing images of the blimp on social media Wednesday, Aug. 13.

Just as the German airship Graf Zeppelin hovered over her home port Friedrichshafen last week, the German Lloyd seaship Columbus moored fast to her Manhattan dock. Aboard her was James Leslie Kincaid, ...

John Mellberg meticulously scratch-built a 1:36 scale model of the LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II over 17 years, driven by a lifelong fascination with airships. The construction involved extensive research, ...

Many people believe Nazis had some of the most advanced technology of World War II. The Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet was probably the fastest plane in the skies back then, even if it was neither safe ...

“All aboard for Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles!” bawled a sergeant of Marines at Lakehurst, N. J., one midnight last week. The Graf Zeppelin, steel blue in the floodlights, was trimmed to ...